Improvement in furniture-casters



NI'IED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEVEDRA B. SHELDON, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.-

IMPROVEMENT IN FURNlTURE-CASTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 164,225, dated June 8,1875 application filed January 31, 1874.

CASE L.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEVEDRA B. SHELDON, ofthe city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Casters; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had tothe accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification.

This invention has reference to the construction of casters forhousehold furniture; and consists in the construction of the horn of asingle piece of sheet metal with a rolled eye, as hereinafter more fullydescribed.

In the drawing, Figure 1 represents the caster attached to the leg, Fig.2, a horizontal section.

a is the horn of the caster b, the wheel or roller; 0, the swivel-pin;d, a collar or plate on the top of the horn, on which the frictionballsroll; and e, the flange-plate on the caster-pin, which confines theballs. The horn a is struck-up from sheet metal, the eye a for the pinbeing rolled up, as shown in Fig. 2. The horn a, being made of sheetmetal, is

much stronger and more durable than when Witnesses: 'l. B. MOSHER,

ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

